back bouncing

Steelhead Fishing continues to be amazing for us on the Muskegon River and Grand River. This warm weather we have been having has had good numbers of fish entering the rivers and the fish have been super charged jumping around and taking long line burning runs. We are set up to have some great fishing throughout the winter on the Muskegon River. We have been taking fish while float fishing, back bouncing, and plug fishing. With the higher water last week I had a day where we shot up into Grand Rapids to the 6th street dam and fished and that was some fast and furious action. The Muskegon River from the dam down to the lake has been fishing good.

If you are looking for a gift idea for someone that likes to fish or likes to be outdoors I have gift certificates. They can be used anytime throughout the year for my river trips, Steelhead, Salmon, Smallmouth, etc., they are a great Christmas gift. I still have a good number of January, February, March, and April dates open so help me fill them up and we can go and beat up on some fish.

Spring Steelheading has gotten off to a slower start than usual but we are still finding plenty of fish to play with. The slow start should mean that we will have a later than usual run of Steelhead into our rivers. The Grand River should fish well for the next few weeks, the Muskegon River should fish well into May again this year. We have been catching a mix of chrome and wintered up steelhead over the past week, more chromers should be showing up daily. We have been taking fish while float fishing, back bouncing, and plug fishing. Guys fishing from the shores in Grand Rapids at the 6th street dam have been getting a few fish off from the wall and post office. If you are looking to get out we should have some great fishing on our West Michigan rivers over the next month and a half and I have some open dates here and there throughout March, April, and the first part of May.

Back Bouncing is another very effective technique of catching good numbers of Steelhead, Salmon, and other species of fish. The concept of this technique is to back your bait down the river behind the boat by lifting it off from the bottom and letting the current take it down stream.